Life goes on at Elephant and Castle

Elephant and Castle looks calm and peaceful under the blue sky, but it isn’t. There’s a lot of controversy going on due to the regeneration plans that are taking place in the area. Not everyone is happy about the surroundings of the Elephant becoming more beautiful. Because beauty is synonymous of prices rising and that means that many people will have to leave in order to survive.

Elephant and Castle is under a huge transformation process. Although the Elephant looks intact, its surroundings are changing quickly and drastically.

The famous roundabout is going to disappear and work is already in progress, something the traffic flow is affected by.

Builders work hard and roadworks are moving on fast.

What do they think? That good or bad, they have got work for years now. ‘Money is money and you can’t always think about what’s behind it’.

And people keep rushing around.

The area’s scenario might be changing, but its people are still here and some are not planning to leave.

That’s what those who have lived around the Elephant forever say: that at least, they’re going to try and stay.